The Lî Kî, Books XI–XLVI — Sacred Books of China Part IV, SBE Vol. 28 (trans. James Legge, 1885)

Fifty, men of, iii, 66, 162, 240-1,

464-6; iv, 230,

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Four, classes of the people, i, 229 ; seas, the, 41, 46, 47, 76, 81, 117-8, 136; iii, a1, 245, 303, 4133 iv, 91, 99, 227, 280, 295, 308-9; mountains, i, 229 (see 35s 39-40) 5 states, the, 214, 217; rivers, iii, 225 (and note) ; subjects of instruction in four seasons, iii, 232-3 (and note); cases of fatal criminality, 238 ; forlorn classes, 244; inspectors, 278, 308; things interrupting an audience, 328; aides, 350; agencies, 378; intelligent creatures, 383-4; limbs, 390; iv, 320; quarters, orcardinal points, 4723 dishes of grain at royal meal, iv, 43 Sai, the, 30; dynasties, 36, 39, 88; rules for effectual teaching, 86; defects in learners, 87; aids to the fundamental in instruction, 91 ; characteristics of ancient music, 108; states with bad music, 119; baskets of grain put by officer’s coffin, 197; schools, the, 232; lowest classes of menials, 249; things at grand festive entertainments, 274; seasons, the, 281, 326, 3933 things Confucius had not attained to, 305-6.

Forty, men at, iii, 66.

Game of pitch-pot, iv, 397-401.

Gifts sent on occasions of death and puri and ceremonies of, iv,

4-8.

God (ti and Shang T}), i, 39, 58,
85, 87, 89, 915 95) 99) IIT, 114,
126, 130, 135, 139, 144, 153,
159, 161, 163, 166, 184-5, 196-8,
206-8, 214-5, 221-2, 245, 256,
259, 266, 307, 309-10, 319-20,
321, 341, 343, 354, 378, 381-2,
389-92, 397) 399, 408, 410, 412,
420, 422; ii, 150, 223, 255, 287,
341, 4253 ili, 218, 220, 254,
273, 288, 293, 309, 344, 370
385, 407, 410, 413-4, 430-1; iv,
60, 118, 167, 212, 281, 311,
336-9 349, 363.

God (tf and shang-ti, used, probably, in the sense of demigod,
or deified hero), i, 32, 34, 38,
41-5, 46-52, 54, 57-8, 60-2, 256,

258. So, in the phrase ‘five
Tits, see Five; and, in iii, 250,
2357, 262, 268, 272, 276, 280,
283, 287, 291, 296, 302, 306.

Good, their, ascribed by men to their parents, by ministers to their rulers, by sovereigns to Heaven, iv, 233.

Good, men are born, i, 89-90, 234,
410, 425.

Government, appointed by Heaven for good of the people, i, 86-7, 90, 115, 309; fundamental connexion of, with Heaven, iii, 376; different conditions of, iii, 375-8; of Kau dynasty, i, 219-25, 226- 313; Royal regulations for, iii, 209-48; Confucius on the practice of, iv, 263-4, 312-7, 340-7.

Governmental proceedings for each month, iii, 249-310.

Grand course, early period of the, iii, 364-6.

Grief, various outward manifestations of in mourning, iv, 385-90.

Habit becomes a second nature, i, 97.

Hall of Distinction, the, iii, introduction, 28-30; i, 477 (and note); iv, 231; progress of king through its different apartments from month to month, iii, 251-2, 258, 263, 269, 273, 277, 281, 284, 287, 292, 297, 302, 307; audience held in it by duke of Kau, iv, 29-31; effect of sacrifice in it, iv, 231.

Harems of king and princes, iii,
100, 109, 118; iv, 432-4.

Harmony, benevolence, confidence,
and rightness, conditions of, iv,
257.

Harems of king and princes, iii,
100, 109, 118; iv, 432-4.

Harmony, benevolence, confidence,
and rightness, conditions of, iv,
257.

Heaven (=the Supreme Being), i,
39s 45, 50, 55-6, 58, 62, 77, 81,
83, 85, 86-7, 89, 90-1, 93, 96,
98-9, IOI, 104, 108-9, 115, 118-
22, 125-30, 132, 134-5, 139, 154,
156-61, 166-7, 169-70, 174,
176-8, 184-90, 192, 196-201,
205-8, 210, 212, 214-9, 236, 241,
245, 248, 259-60, 262, 264, 266,
306-7, 310-2, 316-7, 320, 325,
335, 342, 345, 347-8, 352, 354,
357-61, 364, 376, 378-81, 389,
394, 408-11, 414, 416-9, 425,
428-9, 434-5) 439) 441, 444) 4795

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

p. 477

484; ii, 88, 155, 213-4, 218,
226, 229-30, 234-5, 239, 251,
254, 263, 276, 285, 322, 351, 3545
372, 375-6, 383, 4173 iii, 135,
159, 201, 220, 236, 244, 256,
279, 333, 367, 371, 388-9, 410,
427, 430; iv, 96, 201, 218, 224,
233) 268-9, 281, 286, 288, 300,
306, 309, 313, 317, 323, 325,
327, 329, 337-8, 341, 347, 359-
To these should be added the
very many instances of the occurrence of the term in the
highest name of the sovereign
as ‘the son of Heaven,’ see iii,
107, note 1.

Heaven and Earth (where the phrase
has more than a material meaning), i, 125, 129, 135, 228; ii,
223-4, 226, 227, 235, 238-40,
242-3, 245, 250-1, 257, 35374)
358, 362, 380-1, 395, 417, 424,
4333 iii, 116, 222, 225, 285,
372, 377; 380, 382-3, 387, 396,
410, 439; iv, Too, 106, 111,
114-5, 118, 128, 131, 202-3, 222,
257, 281, 300, 304-5, 311, 321-2,
326-7, 349, 379. How they respond to music and ceremonies,
iii, 115 (and note).

Honoured ones of heaven, the, i, 39
(six) ; iii, 300 (and note),

Honoured Head, and Smaller Head,
in new clan families, iv, 43-4,
65-6.

Honorary title or name, the, iii, 102,
112, 144, 180-1, 438; iv, 18,
106, 339.

Humanity, as the totality of man’s nature, iv, 332-6.

Hunting, iii, 106, 220-1, 294-53 excessive, i, 79; king Wan, in, i, 203.

Husband and wife, how the separation between them, as of different sex, continued to be maintained, iv, 470-1.

Ice, preservation and use of, i, 445 3 iii, 261, 308; iv, 423; use of, in mourning rites, iii, 182.

Inauguration, of the different seasons, iii, 253-4) 269, 284, 297- 8; of palace, i, 349-50 ; of mansion, iii, 196.

Inscriptions on tripods, iv, 251-3.

Instruments of government, and in

the relations of society, iv, 257- 60.

Introduction, presents of, iii, 119.

Inventions early, of the eight trigrams, ii, 382; of written characters and bonds, 385; of use of fire in cooking and moulding, fii, 369; of nets, markets, of plough and husbandry, ii, 383; of canoes and oars, of the use of oxen and horses for draught, of gates and other means of defence, of the pestle and mortar, of the bow and arrow, 3843 of house building, 385; iii, 369; of burial and coffins, ii, 385; of fermented or distilled liquors, see i, 172-3.

Jade, why more valued than soapstone, iv, 463-4.

Judges, and administration of justice, i, 43, 48-9, 83, 259-64; iii, 235-8.

Jade, why more valued than soapstone, iv, 463-4.

Judges, and administration of justice, i, 43, 48-9, 83, 259-64; iii, 235-8.

King, the, is appointed by Heaven for the good ruling of the people, i, 89-90, 126; the permanence of, and his line depend on Heaven, i, 95, 126, 378-9, 380- 2, 389; should excel in virtue, 187; forms aternion with Heaven and Earth, iii, 377; iv, 256; three prerogatives of, iv, 324; Sacrifices peculiar to, see Sacrifices. His ploughing, and its object, iii, 254-5 (and note); iv, 239. How he dealt in regard to his criminal kindred, iii, 356, 359, and at audiences and feasts, 357. His care of schools, see Education. His domain, i, 75; iii, 209, 212-3; appanages in it not hereditary, iii, 214. He could never be said to go abroad, iii, 113 (and note).

Knee-covers, see Aprons.

Ka sacrifice, the, see Sacrifices.

Lament, see Death ; over miserable state of kingdom, i, 351-3, 354-5, 355-7, 357-8; over absence from parents, i, 441.

Lessons, of the ancients, see Ancients ; of the four seasons, iv,

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281-2; of the will of Heaven, iii, 376 (and note).

Lf Ki, the history of, iii, 1-9 ; title and value of, 9-14; enrolment as oneofthe Five King, 14; notices of different books in, 15-60.

Life, decades of, see Decades.

Longevity, of several virtuous kings,
i, 201-33 sought in worship, i,
345, 348; eyebrows of, i, 306,
326, 345.

Looking, regulation and direction of, iii, 70-1, 77, 97, 118.

Love and respect lie at foundation of government, iv, 264.

Man has a moral sense from God, i, 89, 90; is born good, 331, 4253 is the heart and mind of Heaven and Earth, embodying the five elements, iii, 382; is benevolence, iv, 268-9 (and note) ; the most intelligent of all creatures, iv, 392; is in danger of becoming bad, i, 86, 234, 410-11.

Man, the Superior, often meaning a man of rank, but generally of virtue and all admirable qualities, iii, 350 (see note 1); iv, 267. The name occurs more than 300 times, and is applied to men of all classes, trom the scholar to the sage.

Man, the great, ii, 417.

Marriage, iii, 248, 367, 388, 438; iv, 97; details about, iii, 77-8, 374, 439-42; iv, 45, 238, 259, 261, 264-6, 299, 428-34; peculiar case in, iii, 320-1; could only be formed through the parents and the services of a match-maker, iii, 78; iv, 297; between parties of different surnames, iii, 78; iv, 63; age at, iii, 65 (and note), 478; a second was discreditable on the art of the widow, i, 435 (and introductory note).

Marriages, of Shun, i, 36 (but see iii, 132 and note); of Yt, 60; of kings Ki and Win, 360.

Meals, offerings at, see Offerings.

Mean, the, Doctrine of, or State of
Equilibrium and Harmony, see
Equilibrium; Golden Rule of,
iv, 305,419; Confucius had not

attained to it, iv, 305-6; standard of, to be set up by king, i, 88.

Melon, cutting, for different parties, iii, 82.